Analysis of Prayer of Guilt
LORD,
I live life in confusion,
But I see wrong from right.
I have the will to be the pawn
Who longs to be a knight.
I hope someday to earn the wings
of ever lasting flight,
and live upon a world of love Eternal day and night
It seems although I turn to you only in despair
to spill forth a troubled heart
that life is never fair,
Even as I pray to you
those feelings you beseech
I oftentimes in vivid words
tell you I'm a leech
Even as the parasite needs the host
in which to live undeserving of your sight
You eternally forgive
Scheme | ABCDCECCFGFHIJIKCL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1110010 111111 11011101 111101 1111101 110101 01010111010101 111111110001 1110101 111101 1011111 110101 1100101 11101 101010101 0111010111 1010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 512 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 416 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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